Why Are Podcasts So Intimate?

Let me set the stage for you. I am vacationing with my wife and about 20 people from her family in a VRBO home on stilts on the beach in North Carolina. I’m lucky because my wife’s family have somehow escaped the oddball chromosome or switched-on “nutbag on steroids” gene. In essence, they’re normal and fun to be around, although I am a confirmed introvert.